Posted on 05/22/2018 3:43:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
I remember one of my relatives telling me that this was the ‘turning point’ where she became a Conservative.
She was, back in the day, in a social stratum where she socialized with upper-crusties, including one of Johnson’s daughters.
She told me that after she and her friends had seen the beginnings, and envisioned the future, of what the ‘Great Society’ would accomplish, she and her friends looked at one another and asked: ‘What Have We Done ???’
These were compassionate and well-meaning people; and I don’t doubt that there are a lot of Freepers who started out similarly as well-meaning Liberals; but had the sense to finally realize that they had been fooled.
AAAAAAAAAAND... STILL NO SHOOTER-KIDS IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS!
In the debate about the causes of school shootings, why does no one mention that there’s never been a mass-killing in a U.S. Catholic school?
Yes, there are Catholic schools in poor neighborhoods with a high number of students on free/reduced lunch. The kids are there on tuition assistance from the parish or achdiocese.
Not all kids in Catholic schools are Catholic, or even Christian. Many are immigrants or children of immigrants. Every race, ethnicity, major religion, and income level in America is well-represented in Catholic schools.
So why are public schools- where tax payers provide the latest and greatest books and technology, along with armed guards or cops in many cases- getting shot up by students?
Why isn’t it happening in our often-underfunded Catholic schools?
Parents didn’t used to be bffs with their little it’s all about meeee! brats.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair. No sympathy on how she was found.
If you parse the sentence, and substitute another verb for "use," then you can see that the present-tense form of the verb is the correct form in this construction.
For example, you would understand immediately that "I didn't took" is incorrect, while "I didn't take" is correct.
I think some of the confusion stems from the fact that "use to" and "used to" sound the same when spoken aloud.
Yes, I sat here debating with myself, “use to” v “used to”, and in the end I decided “used to” was more correct as it expressed the past tense very much better than “use to”.
Yes. Some of the results of my search on this recognized the confusion between written and spoken, and how it impacts the issue.
(It just, still, seems kind of weird to some of us, when written ;-)
That’s how I saw it; but the negative word ‘didn’t’ seems to qualify things, and make ‘use’ correct - at least, that seems to be the rub according to some experts.
At any rate: it seems to be one of those cases where either is acceptable, but one preferable - and we can all be ‘acceptable, if a bit odd’, if we want to be.
(I’ve sorta made a career out of that...... :-)
“Posta” As in “You’re posta know these things. “ Heard it used by a black woman. Harvard Law grad.
Chasing God out of the classroom sure didn’t usher in The Age Of Reason.
The same editor who writes, "Try and do". (Instead of try to do).
“In the old days the imbecile Factory didn’t dope up a third of the kids on Ritalin and SSRI, they didn’t tear down every American morality story such as George Washington and the cherry tree, the first Thanksgiving, Abraham Lincoln in the $0.09 Etc. They didn’t push militant Atheism and every sort of perversion known to man including some that would shock the Romans, like cutting their penises off. School shootings cannot be fixed by a gun law because they are a symptom of a very sick Society.”
A symptom of a very sick society. There’s the answer right there. How to fix it, I don’t know.
Fortunately English is a fluid language and grammar, like the common law, is found in usage rather than controlled by some academy as some other languages are.
The Year Hundreds of Bombs Went Off in New York City
...New York City has been bombed hundreds, if not thousands of times since the beginning of its existence—one 18-month stretch between 1969 and 1970 saw 370 bombings alone...
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-year-hundreds-of-bombs-went-off-in-new-york-city
English is also a very beautiful language. I’ve never been fluent enough in another language to fairly judge, but I think we must have some of the most beautiful poetry in any language.
Without ANY inside information about how Catholic schools operate (I’m not Catholic), I’d wager that the Golden Rule, the Ten Commandments, The Pledge of Allegiance and a morning prayer are prominent fixtures in every Catholic classroom.
I’d also wager that the teachers do not take any crap FRom any of their students, and that disciplinary action is taken when the rules are broken by a student!
Furthermore, I’d wager that the parents of the students are involved in school affairs - PTA, effective communication with teachers, school administrators, etc., etc.
That sort of environment tends to produce good citizens.
“and that disciplinary action is taken when the rules are broken by a student!”
Absolutely,and if the child is a real problem he/she is expelled———and the public schools are required to take them
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French kissing! Oh, that’s funny and brings back memories of how very innocent we were - and I’m not talking about the 50s, either. When I pass our local high school AND Catholic grade school, I am always shocked at how kids are allowed to dress. Like slobs or as if they are going to the beach. This has got to stop. Kids should either be in a Catholic school uniform or pressed, neat clothing and no baseball caps allowed in class. No shorts, either. It’s sort of the sartorial version of the broken windows theory.
This stuff could be fixed in a generation but won’t be.
When I was in school (graduated HS in 1959), there WAS discipline!
One could hear the Assistant Principle’s swats pretty much throughout the school!
Our Civics teacher was a former Marine Force Recon guy - he pretty much kept the bad guys in line! LOL!
And, ALL the coaches had paddles!
The coup de grace was that, after “discipline” was administered, parents were informed; often the punishment for breaking a school rule was more harsh at home!
LOL!
Those were the days. There was RESPECT EVERYWHERE IN OUR SCHOOL!
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